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Monday, August 17, 2009

Youth wants to know

Rest easier, the Wayans brothers and Sony Pictures are developing a sequel to the 2004 comedy "White Chicks," in which Marlon and Shawn Wayans will reprise their roles as sibling FBI agents posing as a pair of white women.

Just what America needs.

It's Sean Penn's and Robert DeNiro's Birthday.

Please kick a reporter's teeth in for them.

Here's your Today in History:

August 17, 1896 -Bridget Driscoll, a 44-year-old mother of two, becomes the world's first automobile fatality when she steps in front of a car outside the Crystal Palace in London. At the coroner's inquest, Arthur Edsall states he had been driving at only 4 mph.

The motorist also claims that when he saw the pedestrian, he rang his bell and shouted "Stand back!" For whatever reason, the coroner accepts Edsall's preposterous story.

August 17, 1945 -"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

Animal Farm by George Orwell, the most famous satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism, is first published.

August 17, 1959 -Kind of Blue, Miles Davis' brilliant and influential jazz album, was released on this date by Columbia Records.

It has been regarded by many critics as the greatest jazz album of all time.

August 17, 1960 -A great George Pal sci-fi classic, The Time Machine was released on this date.

A question has always plagued me - Did the Morlocks eat the Eloi raw or cooked?

August 17, 1980 -Dingos snatch baby Azaria from a campground near Ayers Rock, Australia. Her mother, Lindy Chamberlain (Meryl Streep - A dingo ate my baby), is later convicted of murder and spends three years in prison, but the conviction is ultimately overturned.

Apparently there have been a number of baby/dingo incidents over the years, the dingo not differentiating animals from humans. (The fact that if you rearrange the letters in LINDY CHAMBERLAIN you get CHILDREN BY ANIMAL is just a coincidence.)

August 17, 1987 -Rudolf Hess is found hanged by an electrical cord at Spandau prison,aged 93. He was incarcerated there for 40 years, 21 of those years as the solitary inmate.

In 1941 Hess flew to Scotland with ideas of peace in his head, making Hitler very very upset.

August 17, 1998 -President Bill Clinton became the first sitting president in American history forced to testify in a criminal case investigation of which he was the focus. Other presidents before Clinton had testified before grand juries in the past, but they had always done so to give evidence against others.

Thomas Jefferson testified against former Vice President Aaron Burr. Gerald Ford testified in a trial of a man who had tried to assassinate him. Jimmy Carter testified in the bribery trial of a financier named Robert Vesco. But Clinton was the first sitting president ever to be served a subpoena to testify in his own indictment.

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About Me

1.) What is your idea of perfect happiness? - A cocktail party with my friends,
2.) What is your greatest fear? - One of the girls getting seriously injured,
3.) What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? - Impatience with others,
4.) What is the trait you most deplore in others? - Intentional lateness,
5.) Which living person do you most admire? - Jimmy Carter,
6.) What is your greatest extravagance? -
Finding the time to write,
7.) What is your current state of mind? -
Mild Elation with a hint of creeping dread,
8.) What do you consider the most overrated virtue? - Religious Piety,
9.) On what occasion do you lie? - To protect the feeling of others,
10.) What do you most dislike about your appearance? - My expanding waistline,
11.) Which living person do you most despise? - The current Majority Leader of the Senate,
12.) What is the quality you most like in a man? - Loyalty,
13) What is the quality you most like in a woman? - Ability to laugh spontaneously at my lame jokes,
14.) Which words or phrases do you most overuse? - Like,
15.) What or who is the greatest love of your life? - Besides my children, Mrs Mao (she knows who she is.)

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